1986 Espirito Santo Trophy

The 1986 Espirito Santo Trophy took place 14–17 October at Lagunita Country Club in Caracas, Venezuela. It was the 12th women's golf World Amateur Team Championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 27 team entries, each with three players. The best two scores for each round counted towards the team total.

1986 Espirito Santo Trophy
Tournament information
Dates14–17 October
LocationCaracas, Venezuela
10°25′23″N 66°48′36″W / 10.423°N 66.810°W / 10.423; -66.810
Course(s)Lagunita Country Club
Organized byWorld Amateur Golf Council
Format72 holes stroke play
Statistics
Par72
Length6,007 yards (5,493 m)
Field27 teams
81 players
Champion
 Spain
Macarena Campomanes, Mari Carmen Navarro, Maria Orueta
580 (+4)
Location map
Lagunita Country Club, Caracas is located in Venezuela
Lagunita Country Club, Caracas
Lagunita Country Club, Caracas
Location in Venezuela
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The Spain team won the trophy, earning the title for the first time, beating team France by three strokes. France earned the silver medal while the United States team took the bronze at third place one more stroke back.[1]

Teams

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27 teams entered the event and completed the competition. Each team had three players.

Country Players
  Argentina Maria Marta Abramoff, Maria Eugenia Noguerol, Nora Ventureira
  Australia Louise Briers, Edwina Kennedy, Sandra McCaw
  Austria Alexandra Kotschwar, Daniela Rauch, Ike Wieser
  Belgium Isabelle De Clercq, Aline Van Der Haegen, Agathe Verlegh
  Bermuda Judithanne Astwood-Outerbridge, Diana Diel, Janice Trott
  Brazil Maria Alicia Gonzales, Elisabeth Nickhorn, Cristina Schmitt
  Canada Gail Anderson, Judy Medlicott, Marilyn Palmer O'Connor
  China Yeh Wei-fing, Li Wen-lin, Chen Yueh-shuang
  Colombia Susie Faccini, Adriana Gomez, Claudia Penuela
  Costa Rica Silvia P. Perez, Sylvia Siemon, Hilda Steinvorth
  Denmark Anette Peitersen, Merete Meiland, Annika Östberg
  Dominican Republic Carmen Corrie, Silvia Dowling, Pamela Gagnon
  France Marie-Laure de Lorenzi-Taya, Cécilia Mourgue d'Algue, Valérie Golléty-Pamard
  Great Britain &
  Ireland
Claire Hourihane Dowling, Trish Johnson, Jill Thornhill
  Hong Kong Elidh Cameron, Nan Coockewit, Marianne Gerber
  Italy Stefania Croce, Emanuelo Braito Minetti, Stefania Scarpa
  Japan Hiromi Kobayashi, Aiko Hashimoto, Michiko Hattori
  Mexico Carolina Fernandez, Ana Luisa Hernandez, Adriana Ramirez
  New Zealand Karrien Duckworth, Marnie McGuire, Brenda Ormsby
  Peru Marisa Alzamora, Alicia Dibos, Maria Julia Raffo
  Spain Macarena Campomanes, Mari Carmen Navarro, Maria Orueta
  Sweden Helen Alfredsson, Eva Dahllöf, Sofia Grönberg-Whitmore
  Switzerland Régine Lautens, Evelyn Orley, Jackie Orley
  United States Kay Cockerill, Kathleen McCarthy, Leslie Shannon
  Venezuela Yubiri Cortez, Maria Eugenia Larrazabal, Chela Quintana
  West Germany Susanne Knödler, Martina Koch, Stephanie Lampert
  Zimbabwe E. Midgley, Karen Ryan, Linda M. Turnbull

Results

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Place Country Score To par
    Spain 148-146-139-147=580 +4
    France 148-142-145-148=583 +7
    United States 151-145-144-144=584 +8
4   Great Britain &
  Ireland
143-148-146-148=585 +9
5   Japan 148-145-145-148=586 +10
6   Venezuela 151-149-150-149=599 +23
7   Sweden 152-149-147-152=600 +24
8   Switzerland 148-157-152-146=603 +27
9   West Germany 152-160-149-147=608 +32
T10   Australia 147-157-154-152=610 +34
  China 153-152-151-154=610
12   Denmark 153-156-152-150=611 +35
13   Peru 150-156-148-159=613 +37
14   New Zealand 164-153-150-150=617 +41
T15   Brazil 159-150-154-160=623 +47
  Italy 153-155-161-154=623
17   Belgium 162-151-153-158=624 +48
18   Canada 158-159-157-155=629 +53
19   Mexico 167-153-158-152=630 +54
T20   Argentina 157-159-161-159=636 +60
  Colombia 154-163-152-167=636
22   Austria 173-160-155-157=645 +69
23   Hong Kong 169-167-160-162=658 +82
24   Bermuda 165-171-168-165=669 +93
25   Costa Rica 166-167-175-173=681 +105
26   Dominican Republic 164-185-172-162=682 +106
27   Zimbabwe 167-175-171-178=691 +115

Sources:[1][2][3][4][5]

Individual leaders

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There was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.

Place Player Country Score To par
1 Marie-Laure de Lorenzi-Taya   France 72-72-72-68=284 −4
2 Michiko Hattori   Japan 75-70-71-72=288 E
T3 Trish Johnson   Great Britain &
  Ireland
72-73-74-72=291 +3
Régine Lautens   Switzerland 72-77-73-69=291
5 Macarena Campomanes   Spain 76-74-70-72=292 +4
6 Kay Cockerill   United States 81-70-72-70=293 +5
7 Leslie Shannon   United States 74-75-72-74=295 +7
T8 Alicia Dibos   Peru 72-74-74-76=296 +8
Jill Thornhill   Great Britain &
  Ireland
71-77-72-76=296
10 Chela Quintana   Venezuela 77-72-74-74=297 +9

References

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  1. ^ a b "Record Book 1986 World Amateur Golf Team Championships" (PDF). World Amateur Golf Council. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  2. ^ "World Amateur Team Championships – Women's Records". Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  3. ^ "Golf-VM genom åren, VM-resultat genom tiderna" [World Team Championship through the years]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 8. August 1988. pp. 168–170, 174–175. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  4. ^ Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 180–181. ISBN 9172603283.
  5. ^ Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 184. ISBN 91-86818007.
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